As Far as the East is From the West

What does it truly mean for God to remove our sins "as far as the east is from the west"? It's a declaration of infinite grace, reaching farther than we often dare to imagine. When Scripture says that the Lord removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west, it … Continue reading As Far as the East is From the West

Beyond a Domesticated God

We have an infinite God who is beyond our control, but because that feels unsafe, we often remake him in our own image. In the book None Greater, Matthew Barrett says many of us have domesticated versions of God. We have explained away all the edges that shock us, but these small views of God...CLICK TO READ MORE.

How Could God Be Happy When the World is So Sad?

It is time to dust off an old theological doctrine to the glory of God—divine impassibility. Impassibility is the notion that God’s passions or emotions cannot be negatively affected by anything outside of Himself. Some theologians have wrongly assumed that this means God is static and cannot feel, but it does not. It means that … Continue reading How Could God Be Happy When the World is So Sad?

Why We Don’t Experience God

Insisting that the nose is the faculty for experiencing gravity will produce nothing more than pointless sniffing. So, we cannot doubt God because we cannot perceive Him with the eye any more than we can doubt gravity because it doesn’t have a certain odor... CLICK TO READ MORE